“The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.”
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“The choice: the most responsible and complicated action in the world.”
Original: (it) La scelta: l'azione più responsabile e complicata del mondo.
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Dijkstra (1970) " Notes On Structured Programming http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd02xx/EWD249.PDF" (EWD249), Section 3 ("On The Reliability of Mechanisms"), p. 6.
1970s

“What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.”
“The Day Before the Revolution” p. 272 (originally published in Galaxy, August 1974)
Short fiction, The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)


Cited in: Eggertsson (1990; 22)
"Information and Efficiency: Another Viewpoint." (1969)

Brooks (1975, Chapter 9) as quoted in Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, by Steve C. McConnell

On whether writers have the responsibility to write about contemporary issues in “‘I can’t think of a happier story’: Shobha Rao talks GIRLS BURN BRIGHTER” https://www.booklistreader.com/2018/03/06/books-and-authors/i-cant-think-of-a-happier-story-shobha-rao-talks-girls-burn-brighter/ in Booklist Reader (2018 Mar 6)